Cape Town - Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan on Thursday said it was vital for those who were opposing government's anti-corruption drive at state-owned enterprises to be exposed.
Gordhan told a media briefing ahead of his department's budget vote that within two years troubled state-owned enterprises could and should play an important role in reviving the economy but for this to happen those obstructing the process had to be outed and stopped.
"If the fightback against the kind of changes that we are trying to make to stop the malfeasance, to get rid of the corruption, to clean up the procurement lines, to get the cost structures in each of these entities appropriately balanced, if we get that right, without the kind of interference that we are seeing at the moment, then we should be on a fairly good footing in the next 18 to 24 months," he said.